Project Manager / Senior Project Manager - Data Centre Construction

Turner & Townsend; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Leeds is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead large-scale data centre construction projects across the UK. You will manage inception to commissioning, coordinate with clients and consultants, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

The role requires 5–10 years PM experience in data centres or digital infrastructure, professional qualification in construction or engineering, and strong leadership, communication, and governance skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in data centre projects from inception through delivery.
• Minimum 5–10 years of project management experience, preferably in digital/data centres.
• Professionally qualified in construction, project management, engineering, or architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic guidance at project conception and define success criteria.
• Lead cross-functional project team and governance.
• Manage project planning, procurement, and finances.
• Interface with client and consultants at all stages.
• Ensure quality, safety, and environment considerations.

Skills

Data Centre Design

Data Centre Management

Data Centre Construction

Construction Engineering

Tenant Liaison/coordination

Education

Professionally qualified in construction/PM/engineering/architecture

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

Due to an expanding portfolioour Real Estate team in Leeds are looking to appoint experienced project management professionals to join our growing Data Centre team.

As a Project Manager,you will support large-scale, ground-up data centre construction projects with our prominent technology clients across the UK. The role will be responsible for all aspects of project delivery, from inception through to commissioning.

Key Accountabilities

Project Management, to include:

• Advising at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives.
• Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Planning for and the ongoing management of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project.
• Project planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• Advising upon the procurement of resources.
• Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques, including the use of KPI’s to improve project performance.
• Managing the change control process.
• Monitoring and advising upon project finances.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Ensuring the production of formal project progress and other reports; and
• Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

Internal management accountabilities, to include:

• Staff management (where appropriate)
• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each project is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database.
• Financial management – Ensuring prompt client invoicing and utilising FMS to monitor a project’s financial status.
• Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Key technical competencies include:
  • Data Centre Design and Development
  • Data Centre Management
  • Data Centre Construction
  • Construction Engineering
  • Tenant Liaison/coordination
• Construction consultancy experience strongly preferred
• A minimum of 5-10years project management experience, preferably gained within the digital/data centresenvironment mentioned above.
• Professionally qualified in one of the following fields: construction, project management, engineering, or architecture.
• A thorough understanding of the total project life cycle, from project conception stage, through all of the operational stages to completion and post-project review.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of all of the main project management concepts, tools, and techniques.
• Design, management or construction experience gained within the general construction environment. ideally residential, office, fit-outs and health & education
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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